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I am interested in the transnational study of the literature and science of empire. This includes both formal martial and political empire, and informal economic and cultural empire. Specifically I look at the interplay between political philosophy and science and the cultural receptions, influences, and impacts of this exchange, particularly in South American and British literature and history. My main focus is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but occasionally my work leads further back or up to the current day.

My work addresses marginal spaces, diasporas, and borders in South America, Victorian and twentieth-century Britain, often through travel narratives, scientific texts, and fiction, and relies on concepts from the history of science, postcolonial theory, cultural anthropology, and tourism theory.

My other scholarly interests include comics and sequential art, theater, film, and digital humanities and culture, especially open content/access/source projects.

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hinternational is a term coined by Johannes Urzidil.
It is a portmanteau of the prefix hinter, German for 'behind', and international.
I use it with respect to Claudio Magris' Danube where he says of the river, "it is a hinterworld 'behind the nation.'" and Djelal Kadir's article "Comparative Literature Hinternational," where he asserts that"Internationalism is inextricably linked to comparative literature, and the letter h prefixed to international speaks elaborately of the particular nomadism, intellectual and physical, that is also inherent to comparative literature's more alert theorists and practitioners."